Saturday, 1 May 2010

Whereeeeerrrreeereee has the t-shirt been this week!

This is one of the greatest "Whereeeeerrrreeereee has the t-shirt been this week!" features I'm ever likely to put on this website. Posing with the Run Geordie Run t-shirt this week is the worlds greatest living explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

Minutes before this photo was taken, I'd learned that the charity fund had burst though the £10,000 barrier. The fund currently stands at £10,073.20. Sir Ranulph was very impressed when I told him and wished me the best of luck with my own "expedition".

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I'm currently on a fundraising campaign to run 20,000 miles Around The World in aid of charities in the North East of England.

Whilst not pursuing a world record, the run is following two aspects of the Guinness World Record criteria used, not in running, but in cycling for “fastest circumnavigation of the globe by bicycle”; To travel a minimum of 18,000 miles (28,968 km) and to travel through two approximate antipodal points (i.e. opposite points on the planet).

The purpose of using the criteria is to, at least, give credibility to the claim that I will “run around the world”.

The distance of my chosen route is 20,000 miles (32,189 km). The chosen antipodal points are La Coruña in Spain and Christchurch in New Zealand.

The run Around The World is split into 9 stages, some of which have been completed already: